Textile fragment with tiraz band in kufic script

Details

• Title

  Textile fragment with tiraz band in kufic script

• Associated place

  Africa › Egypt (find spot)

  Africa › Egypt › Cairo › Cairo › Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

  Near East (place of creation)

  Asia › Iraq (probable) (probable place of creation)

• Date

  11th century (1001 - 1100)

• Material and technique

  cotton, decorated with black ink, and traces of gold leaf and red pigment

• Material index

  organic › vegetal › fibre › cotton;

  processed material › metal › gold

• Technique index

  woven › plain woven;

  drawn (image);

  covered › metallized › gilded

• Object type

  textile

• Dimensions

  18 x 10.5 cm max. (length x width)
  along length/width 20 / 27 threads/cm (thread count)
  0.03 cm (thread diameter)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Eastern Art

• Accession no.

  EA1988.19.a

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